Show m 0 ams GEORGE A LOVE STORY cl CF I 1 APIS DU MAURIER agi JL I 1 L by FAMOUS this famous novel la Is given lr in form to readers of this news paper through arran arrangement geme w with ith richard walton tully tally producer of the screen version ve and first national pictures inc STORY distributor of the motion picture copyright 1894 by harper bros copyright 1922 by gerald du maurier and may du maurier coles pait VII continued looking in a paper they saw it announced that the band of the imperial guides would play that afternoon in the pre catelan bois de boulogne and thought they might as well walk there as anywhere else and walk hack back again in time to dine with the passe fils a function which did not promise to be very amusing but still it was something to kill the evening with since they go and hear trilby again outside the pre catelan they found a crowd of cabs and carriages saddle horses and grooms one might have thought ones self in the height of the paris season they went in im and strolled about here and there and listened to the band which wag famous nit it has performed in london at the crystal palace and they looked about and studied life or tried to suddenly they saw sitting with three ladles indies one of whom the eldest was I 1 in n black a smart young officer a guide all red and green and gold and recognized their old friend they bowed and he knew them at once and jumped up and came to them and greeted them warmly especially his old f friend taffy whom lie he took to his his mother tho lady in black and introduced to the the other ladies the younger of whom strangely unlike th the rest of her countrywomen countrywoman country women was so lamentably so pathetically plain that it would be brutal to attempt the he cheap and easy task of describing her it was miss lavinia hunks the famous Amerl american can and her mother then the good came back and talked to the laird and little billee in some subtle and indescribable way had become very ti tey r 7 rf pt jt y 0 am e a liaa n eiras ai 0 in leaving the arany army and going I 1 nto into a retail business petit commerce he had done for himself begrin gole he should tave have stuck to the dragoons with a little patience and good conduct he won his epaulet and then one might have arranged for him a goad good little marriage un parti tor for he was tres joli garcon dodor bonne tour nure et tres ne cst tres ancien les dans le ie je crois carols lafargo La Farce Farco et at tout ca tout a tait fait men blen he did not present little billee and tile the laird to his bis mother nor to amri mrs and miss hunks that honor was reserved tor for the man alan of blood alone nor did he ask where they were staying nor invite them to call on him but in parting he expressed the immense pleasure it had given him to meet them again and the hope he had of some day shaking hands I 1 in n london As the friends walked back to paris together it transpired that the man 0 of blood had been invited by madame duchesse as mere maman ISu D uc hesse chesse as called tier her to dine with her next day and meet the at a furnished apartment she had taken in the place vendome for they had let to the Hunk ses the hotel do de la roch ein emantel in the rue do de lille they had also been obliged to let their place in the country le ie chateau de Bois Dois segur to monsieur Des or des as he chose to spell himself on his visiting cards the famous manufacturer un tres trea brave homme a ce quon dit and whose only son by the way soon after married mademoiselle jeanne adelaide demaury brissac do de bonc do de Bois segur de la roche martel when they reached the place do de la concorde it was wag that lovely hour of a tine fine autumn day in beautiful bright cities when all the lamps are lit in the shops and streets and under the trees and it Is still daylight a quickly fleeting joy and as a special treat on this particular occasion the sun set and up rose the yellow moon over eastern paris and floated above the chimney poto pota of the tuileries Tull Tuil erles eries they stopped to gaze at the homeward procession of cabs and carriages as they used to do in the old times tout paris was still passing tout paris is very long they stood among a little crowd of eight deerb like themselves lit alo ailleo right in front in the road presently a magnificent open carriage came by more magnificent than even the Hunk ses with liv erles eries and harness quite vulgarly resplendent ul almost most napoleonic lolling back in it lay monsieur et at madame engall Sv ngali ho with his hie board brimmed felt sombrero over his long black curls wrapped in costly furs smoking his big cigar of the havana by his side la ngali also in sables gables with a largo large black velvet hat on her light brown hair done up in ili a huge knot on the nape of 0 her neck she was rouged gouged and pearl powdered and her eyes were blackened beneath and thus made to look twice their size but in spite of all such disfigurements disfigure ments she was a most splendid vision and caused quite a little sensation in the crowd as she came slowly by little billeen Bil lees heart was in hiis his mouth he caught eye ye and saw him speak to her she turned her head and looked at him standing there they both did aid little billee towed bowed she stared ht at him with a cold stare of disdain and cu af hlin dead so did Sv engall ngali and as they passed he heard them both snigger she with a little high flippant snigger worthy of a london barmaid little billee was utterly crushed and everything seemed turning round the laird and taffy had bad seen it all without losing a detail the Sv engalls had not even looked their way the laird said its not trilby I 1 swear she could never have done that its not her and its another face altogether im sure of it taffy was also staggered and in doubt they caught hold of little billee billea each by an arm arm and walked him off to the boulevards he was quite demoralized and wanted not to dine at the Passe fils he wanted ed to go straight home at once he longed for his mother as he used to long for her when he was waa in trouble as a small boy and she was away from home longed for her desperately to hug her and hold her and fondle her and be fondled for his own owl sake and hers all his old love tor for her had comei come baek in full i I 1 V 1 jovi love ome flome f rit 16 ad them to fia j best est evening war paint so as to impress his future mother in lawr law little billee became fractious and in intractable and it was only on sattys I 1 lug ing t that hat her he would go all the way to devonshire with him on the mor TOW taw and stay with him there that he could be got to dress and dine I 1 the huge tatty taffy lived entirely by lils his affections and he be many to live by the laird trilby and little billee billec trilby was unattainable the laird was quite strong and independent enough to get on by himself and tatty taffy had concentrated all his hia faculties of protection and affection on little billee and was equal to any burden or responsibility all this instinctive young fathering fat herink might involve in the first place little billee had always been able to do quite easily and better than any one else in the world the very things taffy most m ost longed to do himself and and this inspired red the good adf ta affy I 1 y with a chronic reverence and wonder he could not have I 1 expressed in i words I 1 then little billee was physically small and weak and incapable of self control then he was generous amiable affectionate transparent as crystal without an atom of either egotism or conceit and had a gift of amusing you and interesting te you by his talk and its completo complete sincerity that never palled and even his silence was charming one felt so sure of him so there was hardly any sacrifice little or big that big taffy was not ready and glad to make tor for little billee on the other hand there lay deep down under surface irascibility and earnestness about trifles and beneath his harmles vanity of the strong man a long suffering patience a real humility a robust robustness fiess of judgment of sincerity and all roundness a completeness of sympathy that mafle made him very good to trust and safe to lean upon then his powerful impressive aspect his great stature the gladiator like poise of his small round head on his big neck and shoulders his bis huge deltoids del and deep chest and slender loins his clean cat cutt ankles and all th the a I 1 long ong aad n ld hoiland hakly f inched flashed ah a t easy clintha t r abib all his movement sa plea ceasur suretA 46 W wa atch and any garment look well when he wore it all this was a perpetual feast to the quick prehensile aesthetic eye dye and then he had such a solemn ernest earnest lovable way of bending banding bendin bandin in g pokers jokers round his ineck and breaking them on hist arm and jumping his own height or near it and lifting up armchairs by one leg with one hand and what not else so that there was hardly any anrine ire fice little or big t that hat little nii lee would not accept from bi hie g tuff ty fy as a mere matter of course f 0 bitting and proper t tribute albut rendered a by bodily strength to to genius par nobile frat well met and well mated for fast andi and jong lonc enduring friendship tho the family ban banquet at aloff monsieur Pass effis would have been dull but tor for the irrepressible dodor all ami d still more for the laird of co cocknel ck who rose to the occasion loil an and d pell sur bur passed himself in geniality drol lery and eccentricity of french grammar and accent monsieur Passe fil was also a droll in his way and had the quickly familiar jocose jol facetiousness that seems tobe toa belong to the successful middle aged bourgeois all over th tha worlds orld when h c 1 l hes not pompous instead he ck calls even be both sometimes 1 madame Passe fil was not joco jocose she was much impressed b by th the aristocratic splendor of tatty taffy th tha romantic melancholy melon choly and refine ment of little billee bille and their quiet and dignified dignify ed politeness she always spoke of dodor ag montleur de ladarce La farce though the rest of of the family and one or two friends wal who had been bean invited always called him monsieur theodore and he juds was officially fici ally known ag as 1110 monsieur algo biot whenever madame Passe fil ad dressed him or spoke of him in this aristocratic manner which happened very often dodor would wink at his friends with his tongue in his cheeck it seemed to amuse him beyond measure 1 1 mademoiselle ernestine was wag evidently too much in love to say ana thing and seldom took her eyes off monsieur theodore whom she had never s seen een in evening dress before it must be owned that he looked very nice more ducal than even I 1 and to be A madame ladame de la farce en perspective and the future futura owner of such a brilliant husband as dodor was enough to turn a stronger little bourgeois head than mademoiselle Erne stines I 1 she was not beautiful but healthy well grown well brought up and presumably of a sweet kind ind ana amiable disposition an alige nue f fresh from her convent innocent a as a child no doubt and it was fea tel that dodor had done better tor for himself and for his race than monsieur ie a due little doders need have no tear fear after clinner dinner the ladies and gentlemen I 1 left oft the dining room toge together th and sat in a pretty salon overlooking the boulevard where cigarettes are es were war a allowed owe and n there ere was music mademoiselle Erne ernestine laboriously played les leg cloches choches du Alonas terell by monsieur lefebure wely IL if im not mistaken its the most bourgeois piece of music I 1 know enoi |